CURRENT EXHIBITION
Two Lights is a journey into a world of visual sensations. Abstract works by Elsner and Stańczak, shown together for the first time, draw viewers in with their spectacular surfaces, resulting from a complex and time-consuming painting process.
WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND 2024
In her works, Aneta Grzeszykowska combines performance, photography, hand-sewn objects, but also specific materials (animal skins) and family members. The protagonists of the exhibition are the artist and the dogs she lives with, but also anonymous farm animals, which humans have stripped of their subjectivity. In a manner characteristic of her creative practice, Grzeszykowska radicalizes […]
EXHIBITIONS 2024
Slavs and Tatars’ new exhibition at Raster Gallery débuts work from Simurgh Self-Help, the collective’s first new cycle of work since Pickle Politics (2016-2023) which was originally launched on the occasion of the artists’ last exhibition at Raster in 2016.
ART FAIRS
NADA Villa Warsaw is a collaborative exhibition featuring 44 international galleries, taking place May 16th to 19th, 2024, at the historic Willa Gawrońskich on Aleje Ujazdowskie.
EXHIBITIONS 2024
Since the birth of photography, it has remained in a loving embrace with its older kissing cousin, painting. They serve each other, inspire each other, and swap roles. But this intimate relationship carries a whiff of shame, as the lovers don’t like to appear in public together. The exhibition Constellations tries to break this taboo.
EXHIBITIONS 2024
Galaxy is a refreshing collection of new and super-new paintings by Przemysław Matecki. His painterly cosmos constantly draws energy from the tension between light and darkness. This is painting that appears on the surface to be full of contradictions, the main one being the combination of thick paint textures with flat photographic images cut out of magazines and catalogues.
EXHIBITIONS 2024
Michał Budny’s art grows and matures with each new exhibition. The current show draws its drama directly from the aura of the garden. The post-minimalism which the artist has been faithful to from the start now takes on surprisingly vital forms.
2023 ART FAIRS
From December 5 to 9, we invite you to the joint presentation of Rastr and the Milan-based gallery eastcontemporary at the NADA MIAMI fair.
WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND 2023
The work of Janek Simon grows out of experiences of travel between diverse cultures, economies and visions of the future, which the artist combines using innovative digital tools and DIY practice. The sculpture series “Meta Folklore”, executed over the past two years, is an artistic, technological and political fantasy—a vision of a new, universal art created using artificial intelligence fed by a database of thousands of non-academic sculptures from all over the world.
WARSAW GALLERY WEEKEND 2023
Oskar Zięta’s design practice derives from a modernistic ethos of innovation and technology which drives aesthetics. The point of departure for the project prepared especially for the Raster Sculpture Garden is the figure of the rug-beating frame typically found in the courtyard of a housing complex, from which the artist explores a surprising space between functional garden furniture and an abstract, futuristic spatial forms.
ART FAIRS 2023
The series of photomontages World of Feelings and Imagination, also published in book form in 1979, holds a special place in Rydet’s oeuvre. It is a metaphorical narrative of human life, alluding to the tradition of surrealism but told from an empathetic, feminist perspective.
EXHIBITIONS 2023
Summer ticks by slowly at the gallery. The sun circles the garden and the display room in a wide arc, lazily flicking its long tongue.
2023 ART FAIR
This time, in the exceptional hotel interiors, Raster will present the latest paintings by Karolina Jabłońska, works by Dominika Olszowy, and objects by Oskar Zięta.
EXHIBITIONS 2023
Rogalski’s paintings movingly combine formal invention and finesse with a lyrical message. They are in themselves an intuitive, spiralling journey into the depths, where the image eventually fades but curiosity remains alive.
EXHIBITIONS 2023
On 22 April, we cordially invite you to the opening of a show of new works by Paulina Stasik at Raster Gallery. In her latest paintings and drawings, the artist creates a cosmological map of her own imagination, calls forth images of androgynous bodies, and metaphorically examines their metabolism. The figurative scenes allude to archetypes and myths inscribed in the spiritual, biological and sexual identity of the body.
ART FAIRS 2023
The Polish art market has evolved over the past few years. Despite initial concerns, the pandemic did not stunt the development of the collectors’ community—quite the reverse. We have grown accustomed to cutting the distance and viewing pictures and sculptures on phone screens. Contemporary art has found its way into private homes for good. What […]
EXHIBITIONS 2023
The first individual show at Raster by Alicja Pakosz (born 1996) is a narrative woven around the figure of a toxic landscape—obsessively returning as a classic motif from the history of painting and also a vision evoking fear, an underlying anxiety. An image appearing in the least expected moment like hallucinations pressing under the eyelids. Something morbid and not entirely benign. The artist plays out this story like film frames in a series of paintings in two different scales and a fully-formed diorama.
EXHIBITIONS 2023
Zofia Rydet (1911–1997), creator of the iconic Sociological Record and the fantastic World of Feelings and Imagination, was an artist gifted with a sense for observing the entropy of the world around her. This exceptional photographic perspective is revealed in all its power in the series Endlessly Distant Roads, executed in 1980. In the exhibition at Raster, we present a selection of 40 photographs from this unusual and rarely shown collection.
2023 ART FAIRS
At the Felix Art Fair 2023 Raster presented works of Karolina Jabłońska, Emilia Kina, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Slavs and Tatars, Milena Korolczuk, Zbigniew Rogalski.
EXHIBITIONS 2022/2023
Chill. Cold prevails outside. Snow has even fallen, and when we open our lips, our breath turns into clouds of fog, quickly rising in the wintry air. When it blows harder, locks of hair stick to the face. Snowflakes fall over the head, hair, eyebrows, and then slowly melt under the fading body heat.
ART FAIRS 2024
The third edition of the Hotel Warszawa Art Fair will take place on September 7-8, 2024. During this edition, Raster will present works by Sławomir Elsner, Emilia Kina, Dominika Olszowy, and Janek Simon. The works will be displayed in room 104.
2022 art fairs
At this year’s FELIX art fair in Los Angeles Raster shows works of Aneta Grzeszykowska, Paulina Stasik, Karolina Jabłońska and Michelle Rawlings.
2021 art fairs
At this year’s NADA fair in Miami, Raster shows works of Aneta Grzeszykowska, Karolina Jabłońska, Emilia Kina, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas and Michelle Rawlings.
EXHIBITIONS 2021
In the third Warsaw edition of the Friend of a Friend project, Galeria Raster, along with The Breeder from Athens and Sophie Tappeiner from Vienna, is presenting an exhibition confronting the nature of pain and discomfort.
EXHIBITIONS 2020
Adventure is a story full of personal experiences, ruminations on love and death, joy and loss, as well as small but meaningful sensations, like the pleasure from a complement.
2020 art fairs
Raster at NADA Miami: Przemysław Matecki and Paweł Althamer, Olaf Brzeski, Emilia Kina and Zbigniew Rogalski. This year’s edition of the art fair is taking place in a hybrid form – on the online platform and live at Raster.
exhibitions 2020
“Maria Klassenberg” is a performance-installation-exhibition, built around the biography and work of Maria Klassenberg, a forgotten figure of contemporary art. The exhibition accompanying the performance presents the archives of Klassenberg prepared by Aneta Grzeszykowska in cooperation with Jan Smaga.
Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art
Dominika Olszowy takes part in the second edition of the biennial in Riga. Her project consists of two parts presented in the Latvian capital and an installation prepared at Raster.
2020 art fairs
In Moscow we will present the latest works of Zina Isupova and Lev Povzner.
2020 ART FAIRS
Raster at Not Fair: Janek Simon, Zbigniew Rogalski
exhibitions 2020
The latest exhibition by Janek Simon at Raster has an open structure. Instead of a traditional, arranged showing of completed artistic objects, we are given a process, a situation suggesting a visit to the studio, where we can observe “live” the changing progress of work on each project.
exhibitions 2020
The presentation of ten of Edward Dwurnik’s works on paper never shown before marks the beginning of the work on an intriguing archive of the artist, in which motifs and stories known from paintings are developed, or the reverse—drawings left by the artist include ideas and emotions later expanded on in his paintings.
2020 ART FAIRS
Raster at FAIR: Slavs and Tatars, Zbigniew Rogalski, Janek Simon, Karolina Jabłońska.
EXHIBITIONS 2020
Emilia Kina focuses on the margins of depiction, of what is merely a frame for the proper view, what hides it or merely appears. Her relief compositions, painting/screens captivating in their material beauty, divert attention from the digital inflation of images and messages.
EXHIBITIONS 2020
Wąbrzeźno, an ordinary little town starting with W, down near the end of the alphabet, in a language where “w” could stand for wszędzie—anywhere, portrayed by the photographer after a decade of systemic changes up to the eve of Poland’s joining the European Union, became a visual synonym for the creeping transformation. Working on colour negatives and alluding to the minimalist poetics of topographic photography, Zieliński created an image of the post-socialist countryside that is the first of its kind, moving and empathetic, constructed from mist and a thousand and one shades of grey.
EXHIBITIONS 2020
At the joint exhibition Equivalent Arrangement Michał Budny and Kajetan Sosnowski meet for the first time. The works of both artists, seemingly abstract, in various ways defy easy classifications of genre. They operate through images and masses but use little painting or sculpting. Their compositions generally finds its origins in an abstract drawing—noted on paper or only conceptualized—as a type of minimalist score, the simplest recording of an idea.
2020 art fairs
Raster at Felix Art Fair in Los Angeles: Aneta Grzeszykowska, Marcin Maciejowski, Przemek Matecki, Zbigniew Rogalski, Michelle Rawlings, Janek Simon
EXHIBITIONS 2019
The show “Neither” is Budny’s latest radical statement, this time with a vector aiming upwards, “into space, far from earthly concerns and triviality, from the quotidian and everything that weighs us down and detracts us from what is important.”
2019 art fairs
Raster at NADA Miami: Aneta Grzeszykowska, Przemek Matecki, Janek Simon, Slavs and Tatars.
Exhibitions 2019
Joint exhibition of Galeria Dawid Radziszewski and Raster Gallery is the first-ever in Poland for Lev Povzner, a painter from the movement of Russian nonconformists. He works in his own flat and uses domestic materials. Povzner’s elaborate, individual brand of surrealism represents a return to the political potential of the genre. At this exhibition we present a selection of his newest works.
Album Workers, published by the Edward Dwurnik Foundation, in a special collector’s edition with an original print signed and stamped by the artist. There is a choice of two works—Vodka and Death or Only Vodka—from the Workers series.
Signed print by Maciejowski in a limited edition of 25, based on his 2022 drawing I Have Yet to See, in a format of 100 × 70 cm, priced at PLN 3,200 is available at Raster.
Part of the show Simurgh Self-Help is the new merch drop py Slavs and Tatars, including caps, T-shirts and leggings in various colourways, featuring themes and slogans from the show: Simurgh—See More. Merch is available exclusively at Raster during the exhibition, until July 6, 2024.
At the Raster bookstore we recommend a new item: a poster by Marcin Maciejowski based on his own painting Raphael by Maciejowski (The Impression of Possession).
The album Workers — the first publication of the Edward Dwurnik Foundation — is a monographic study of the painting cycle by Edward Dwurnik, comprising 260 works created between 1975 and 1991.
BOOK
Made-Up Story is the first album presenting the works of Karolina Jabłońska (born 1991), one of the most prized and popular artists of the younger generation in Poland. The book contains over 100 reproductions of paintings from the last ten years, including many of the latest works.
RASTER EDITIONS
The collective’s monograph includes all major art works, publications and lecture–performances from the past ten years, with a special screenprint by Slavs and Tatars in limited edition of 100 copies.
RASTER EDITIONS
The latest, typo-photo-graphic performance by Aneta Grzeszykowska is an up-to-date political choreography. Using excerpts from her film works, the artist prepared an effective screenprint.
AID FOR UKRAINE
Karolina has prepared a special limited series of 30 unique works on paper, which are offered for sale along with the book “Made-Up Story”.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
Works by Dominika Olszowy can be viewed at the exhibition Surrealism. Other Myths at the National Museum in Warsaw until August 11, 2024.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
The exhibition “Tears of Joy” at Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, featuring works by Olaf Brzeski, Oskar Dawicki, Aneta Grzeszykowska and Zbigniew Libera, runs until September 15th.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
The individual exhibition by Oskar Dawicki The End of Titles is now on in the unique Gothic spaces of Galeria EL in Elbląg. The artist’s new works perfectly suit the eschatological aura of the church nave. The show runs through 1 September.
EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
At Dallas Contemporary in Texas, the exhibition Who’s Afraid of Cartoony Figuration? is now underway. The show, curated by Alison Gingeras, features paintings by Karolina Jabłońska.
EXHIBITIONS IN POLAND
The exhibition ‘Preserves. Works from 2023–24’ is a testament to and documentation of the development of Jabłońska’s autotheoretical and autofictional practices in painting over recent years. The protagonist of Karolina Jabłońska’s latest paintings faces social, political, and aesthetic changes that have occurred in Poland – a country whose politics in recent years have become known for an anti-feminist agenda and various forms of exclusion.
EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
Works from Grzeszykowska’s series Untitled Film Stills, inspired by the legendary photo series of the same title by Cindy Sherman, are part of an extensive anniversary exhibition of the Verbund corporate collection at the famed Albertina Museum in Vienna
EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
In cooperation with Tokyo’s Watowa Gallery, we presented the first exhibition of works by Aneta Grzeszykowska and Janek Simon in the Japanese capital.
EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
A group of sculptures by Olaf Brzeski from the series Little Orphans, as well as the iconic Dream – Spontaneous Combustion from 2008, are currently on view in the survey show When Forms Come Alive at the prestigious Hayward Gallery in London.
YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE
A monumental show of Grzeszykowska’s latest sculptures and photo series Mama and Domestic Animals is underway at the Yokohama Museum of Art as part of the 8th Yokohama Triennale, Wild Grass: Our Lives.
EVA INTERNATIONAL
Slavs and Tatars’s works were on view at EVA International, Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art, in Limerick, from 31 of August to 29 October, 2023.